NEWS. 
PROFESSOR O. MATTIROLO, of Florence, has been appointed professor of 
botany in the University of Turin. 
Dr. HuGo ZuKAL, associate professor of botany in the Agricultural Insti- 
tute at Vienna, died on February 15, at the age of 55. 
PROFEssoR A. N. BERLESE, of Bologna, has been appointed assistant pro- 
fessor of botany and director of the botanical institute, at Sassari, in Sar- 
dinia. 
Dr. Epwin B. ULINE has been appointed special assistant in the Gray 
Herbarium for the summer, during the absence of Dr. B. L. Robinson in 
Europe. 
PROFESSOR M. A. BARBER, associate professor of botany in the Univer- 
sity of Kansas, will spend six months in Berlin in bacteriological study. He 
will resume his university duties in the autumn. 
THE MARINE BIoLoGicAL LABORATORY offers this summer for the first 
time a course in nature study. It is to occupy the entire session ot six weeks, 
and will be conducted cooperatively by members of the staff of the laboratory 
and a number of specialists. The thoroughness characteristic of the work of 
this institution is thus assured. We note among those outside of the staff the 
names of Wheeler, Dudley, and Peckham in entomology; Chapman, Herrick, 
Stone, and Dearborn on birds ; Hodge on the toad; Patten on the king crab ; 
Scott and Penhallow in paleontology ; and McFarlane in phanerogamic bot- 
any. It is quite safe to say that never before in this country has a course in 
nature Study been presented by a group of men so strong in their respective 
ines. The time will be divided as follows: cryptogamic botany one week, 
Phanerogamic botany one week, the king crab two days, insects four days, 
birds one week, the toad one day, marine invertebrates one week, animal psy- 
Sulogy six days. A few sentences from the introduction to the program, 
Written by Dr. Whitman, shows the temper of the course : “We shall have 
field work, laboratory exercises, lectures, demonstrations, and all available 
means of reading a few chapters in nature’s book. Study nature for under- 
Standing, not for information, is the ideal to be kept in view. Those who are 
ambitious to fill their notebooks with a complete survey of the field of facts 
. advised not to apply. We shall be content if we succeed in taking a 
oc at advantageous points.” ‘Aanouncene’ of the course may be 
ae rom Dr. Bradley M. Davis, University of Chicago. 
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